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North Korean has a nuclear war head that could reach America

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said.

A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said. Another child picked up the gun and it discharged, striking the 7-year-old boy who was standing nearby.

The boy was taken to the hospital and was in surgery as of Monday afternoon.

Officials are conducting an investigation and will decide later if they will press charges against the parents of the student who bought the gun to school.

The children involved in the incident will not be criminally responsible, Mancuso said.

It's unclear why the student brought the gun to school.

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Louisiana boy accidentally shot in school after gun falls from backpack, police say

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said. A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said.

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North Korea has a nuclear war head that could reach America

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'big bang theory' star gets hitched - cnn video

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"The Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons tied the knot with his partner of 14 years, Todd Spiewak.

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Hackers collecting bitcoin following Friday’s cyberattack have not yet withdrawn any of the digital currency from their accounts, and could have a hard time doing so without getting caught, experts say. The hackers, who have locked files on 200,000 computers worldwide, have only made around $500,000 so far, despite the magnitude of the attack. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is urging victims not to pay the ransom.

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Hackers collecting bitcoin following Friday's cyberattack have not yet withdrawn any of the digital currency from their accounts, and could have a hard time doing so without getting caught, experts say.

With the help of leaked software developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), malicious ransomware called the Wanna Decryptor - or WannaCry - spread to 150 countries.

It wreaked havoc on systems belonging to Britain's National Health Service (NHS), where hospital computers were shut down and operations cancelled. Other victims included a Spanish telecommunications company and a Russian cell phone operator.

The malware instructs people to pay up to £460 to one of three bitcoin addresses in order to retain their files, and also displays a countdown clock giving a deadline for the payments.

The hackers, who have locked files on 200,000 computers worldwide, have only made around $500,000 so far, despite the magnitude of the attack. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) is urging victims not to pay the ransom.

Nothing has yet been withdrawn from any of the bitcoin accounts, and law enforcement agencies watching them say the perpetrators could be difficult to trace until they access some of the ransom money.

Ransomware bounties are usually paid in bitcoin, a digital currency that keeps its users anonymous. Bitcoin is also traceable, however, as every transaction is tied to publicly-accessible accounts, typically called wallets. The wallets show each payment that victims have sent in hopes of regaining access to their files.

New payments are coming in regularly, according to Ransom Tracker, a Twitter bot that is sending out automated messages and posting every time a payment is made to one of the three bitcoin addresses.

Oliver Gower, the deputy director of the NCA's national cybercrime unit, has vowed to track down the hackers.

"Cybercriminals may believe they are anonymous but we will use all the tools at our disposal to bring them to justice," he told the Times.

Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, told the newspaper that security officials believe the hack is the work of criminals, rather than a state-sponsored attack.
"Our working assumption, as with every other major ransomware attack, is that this is a cybercriminal attack. Unless we have something definitive to point us in another direction that's our assumption at the moment. As in any investigation, we keep our mind open."

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WannaCry hackers have not withdrawn any ransom bitcoin, surveillance shows

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Hackers collecting bitcoin following Friday's cyberattack have not yet withdrawn any of the digital currency from their accounts, and could have a hard time doing so without getting caught, experts say. With the help of leaked software developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), malicious ransomware called the Wanna Decryptor - or WannaCry - spread to 150 countries.

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Aric Almirola (NASCAR driver) out of hospital with fractured vertebra during crash

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NASCAR driver compression fracture to the T5 vertebra following a crash at Saturday's Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway, according to Aric Almirola was released from the hospital on Sunday after sustaining a Bob Pockrass of ESPN.com.

Almirola was involved in a scary crash with Danica Patrick and Joey Logano that resulted in Almirola being to taken off the track on a stretcher. Fox Sports shared the incident:

FOX Sports @FOXSports
Here's a closer look at tonight's BIG 3-car crash at @kansasspeedway. #NASCARonFS1 #GB400 https://t.co/DwNskvXpjm
5/14/2017, 2:29:56 AM

"That's the last thing you want to see, a big hit like that for anyone," Logano said after the crash, per Pockrass. "It's unfortunate for everyone. ... Everything was fine and then [my car] just took a hard right."

He was airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center on Saturday night.

"Almirola is mobile and will follow-up with his doctors in Charlotte," Richard Petty Motorsports said in a statement.

He is flying back to North Carolina on Sunday, and his timetable for recovery is unclear.

Stewart-Haas Racing wished for a fast return to action:

Stewart-Haas Racing @StewartHaasRcng
Hoping for a full and speedy recovery for @aric_almirola. 🙏
5/14/2017, 4:21:22 PM

The crash took place following a restart on Lap 199. Logano's right-front brake rotor appeared to explode, per Tom Jensen of Fox Sports, sending him into Patrick's car. The pair crashed into the wall, and Almirola had too much speed to avoid the accident, ramming into Logano and nearly going completely airborne.

After a long delay, Martin Truex Jr. went on to win Saturday's race.

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Aric Almirola Out of Hospital, Suffered Fractured Vertebra During Fiery Crash

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NASCAR Timothy Rapp Featured Columnist Sean Gardner/Getty Images NASCAR driver compression fracture to the T5 vertebra following a crash at Saturday's Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway, according to Aric Almirola was released from the hospital on Sunday after sustaining a Bob Pockrass of ESPN.com.

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The home improvement retailer is testing exoskeletons on four employees at a Christiansburg, Virginia, store to make it easier to lift objects and stock shelves. Some Lowe's (LOW) employees spend 90% of their time moving and lifting everything from bags of cement to huge buckets of paint.

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A handful of Lowe's employees have a new work uniform: an exoskeleton.

The home improvement retailer is testing exoskeletons on four employees at a Christiansburg, Virginia, store to make it easier to lift objects and stock shelves. Some Lowe's employees spend 90% of their time moving and lifting everything from bags of cement to huge buckets of paint.

Wearing the exoskeleton is somewhat similar to putting on a rock climbing harness and a backpack. The suit also includes attached carbon-fiber shafts that run down a person's back and thighs. The shafts flex and store energy as a person bends over to pick something up. When the employee stands, the rods straighten and the energy releases, making the task easier. The process is similar to how a bow releases energy when an arrow is launched.

Lowe's developed the exoskeleton in partnership with Virginia Tech engineering professor Alan Asbeck. For years, engineers have tinkered with exoskeletons and exoskeletons as a way to augment human abilities with extra mechanical powers.

Kyle Nel, executive director of Lowe's Innovation Labs, describes the suits as a way to better recruit potential employees and make their workdays easier.

"Who wouldn't want to work in a place where you get to wear an exosuit?" Nel asked.

Related: Lowe's turns to virtual reality for home improvement projects

Nearly four weeks into the three-month pilot, the response from employees has been positive, Nel said.

Lowe's has had the exosuit-wearing employees also wear a headset for a few hours of their shifts. The headset senses brain activity to determine whether they're enjoying the experience. Nel said it's a far superior way to get user feedback versus asking direct questions.

"If someone asks you how a movie was, people generally say, 'It was a good movie,'" Nel said. "But there are parts of the movie that were probably better and less good than others."

Once the pilot is complete, Lowe's will evaluate whether to expand the exoskeletons to other stores. Currently, Nel anticipates the exoskeletons only getting more useful and powerful.

"We'll add a jetpack in 2018," he joked.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published May 15, 2017: 9:01 AM ET

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These Lowe's employees are now wearing exosuits to work

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Sir app saved my life after house explosion man said.

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A New Hampshire man critically injured in a house fire claims the iPhone app Siri saved his life.

Christopher Beaucher said he was at his mother's vacant cottage May 1 when he decided to enter the house. When he flipped the light switch, the house exploded, according to Manchester's WMUR.

"The whole place caught fire," Beaucher told the station. "Part of it collapsed while I was in it during the initial explosion, so I couldn't really tell where I was."
4-YEAR-OLD BOY USES SIRI TO CALL AMBULANCE, SAVES MOM'S LIFE
Photos he took from his hospital bed show he sustained severe injuries. But at that moment, he managed to leave the fiery house and stumble to his vehicle. He reached for his cell phone but his hands were so burned, he could not dial 911.

Then, he said, he "had the presence of mind to use Siri to at least call 911." That split-second decision may have saved his life, he said.

"I was going into shock, too, so having Siri to dial 911 for me was critical," Beaucher said.

The Springfield, New Hampshire cook is still undergoing treatment for his injuries, but says he hopes to soon return to his job and tend to his farm.
APPLE SAID TO BE WORKING ON 'ENHANCED SIRI' FOR THE IPHONE 8
Authorities are still investigating the explosion.

In a GoFundMe page created to help him pay for medical bills, Beaucher said he's "deeply moved" by all the support he has received.

"This experience has changed me in a very profound way," he said. "I'm deeply grateful for all the good friends that have helped get me through this extremely difficult time."

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Siri app saved my life after house explosion, man says

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A New Hampshire man critically injured in a house fire claims the iPhone app Siri saved his life. Christopher Beaucher said he was at his mother's vacant cottage May 1 when he decided to enter the house. When he flipped the light switch, the house exploded, according to Manchester's WMUR.

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Moustakas has HR, 4 RBIs, Royals finish sweep of Orioles

W: Strahm (1-2)

L: Bleier (0-1)

S: Herrera (8)

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McKinley High School QB Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation

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Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

"The entire faculty and staff at McKinley Senior High School wish to express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Bryant Lee," a statement from McKinley High School read, per Marcus Brown of WAFB.

"Bryant was an 18-year-old dedicated scholar who put his academics above his job as the leader of our football team. Bryant transferred to McKinley High School from Scotlandville his sophomore year and joined the Panther football team as quarterback.

"Students and teachers alike will remember Bryant as intelligent, hard-working, focused, fun-loving and as having a great sense of humor. As a student, he was concerned about his grades; as an athlete, he played tough and gave it all he had. One of the characteristics coaches loved about him is that he was coachable. He was respected by his coaches and teammates."

According to a police report the station obtained, Lee was shot in the head by an unknown assailant in Baton Rouge around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries.

McKinley High head football coach Ken Hilton said Lee was planning to attend Southern University and walk on to its football program. He was three days away from his high school graduation.

"I really think something is missing. Something is really missing," Hilton said. "It's a happy time. A day before Mother's Day, three days before he graduates."

Lee was previously shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting in November 2016.

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation

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Louisiana boy accidentally shot in school after gun falls from backpack, police say

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said.

A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said. Another child picked up the gun and it discharged, striking the 7-year-old boy who was standing nearby.

The boy was taken to the hospital and was in surgery as of Monday afternoon.

Officials are conducting an investigation and will decide later if they will press charges against the parents of the student who bought the gun to school.

The children involved in the incident will not be criminally responsible, Mancuso said.

It's unclear why the student brought the gun to school.

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Louisiana boy accidentally shot in school after gun falls from backpack, police say

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said. A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said.

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack. A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said. Another child picked up the gun and it discharged, striking the 7-year-old boy who was standing nearby.

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said.

A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said. Another child picked up the gun and it discharged, striking the 7-year-old boy who was standing nearby.

The boy was taken to the hospital and was in surgery as of Monday afternoon.

Officials are conducting an investigation and will decide later if they will press charges against the parents of the student who bought the gun to school.

The children involved in the incident will not be criminally responsible, Mancuso said.

It's unclear why the student brought the gun to school.

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Louisiana boy accidentally shot in school after gun falls from backpack, police say

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said. A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said.

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North Korea could send a nuclear emp to NYC

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Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon-and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security's National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.

Many experts warn an act of nuclear terrorism is not a question of if, but when.

Until the recent protracted nuclear crisis with North Korea, relatively less attention has been paid to the increasing possibility of nuclear war between nations. India and Pakistan are widely regarded as the most likely candidates for a nuclear conflict between states.

Although North Korea, Russia, and China have all made nuclear threats against the United States recently, in the case of North Korea and Russia repeatedly, most analysts dismiss these as mere "bluster" and "nuclear sabre rattling" not to be taken seriously. One day, perhaps soon, this may well prove to be a fatal mistake for millions.

In the West, generations of leaders and citizens have been educated that use of nuclear weapons is "unthinkable" and the ultimate horror. Not so in Russia, China, and North Korea where their nuclear capabilities are publicly paraded, missile launches and exercises are televised as a show of strength, an important part of national pride.

Whereas the U.S. nuclear deterrent is kept low-profile, almost invisible, and its utility and legitimacy much debated, Russia and China run TV documentaries describing how they would win a nuclear war with the United States.

The "international taboo" on nuclear warfare is one-sided and far more likely to have a psychologically paralyzing effect on the U.S. and its allies than on Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack would be perfect for implementing Russia's strategy of "de-escalation," where a conflict with the U.S. and its allies would be won by limited nuclear use. It's their version of "shock and awe" to cow the U.S. into submission. The same kind of attack is viewed as an acceptable option by China and North Korea as well.

An EMP attack would be the most militarily effective use of one or a few nuclear weapons, while also being the most acceptable nuclear option in world opinion, the option most likely to be construed in the U.S. and internationally as "restrained" and a "warning shot."

Because EMP destroys electronics instead of blasting cities, even some analysts in Germany and Japan, among the most anti-nuclear nations, regard EMP attacks as an acceptable use for nuclear weapons. High-altitude EMP attack entails detonating a nuclear weapon at 30-400 kilometers altitude-above the atmosphere, in outer space, so high that no nuclear effects, not even the sound of the explosion, would be experienced on the ground, except EMP.

An EMP attack will kill far more people than nuclear blasting a city through indirect effects-by blacking out electric grids and destroying life-sustaining critical infrastructures like communications, transportation, food and water-in the long run. But the millions of fatalities likely to eventually result from EMP will take months to develop, as slow as starvation.

Thus, a nation hit with an EMP attack will have powerful incentives to cease hostilities, focus on repairing their critical infrastructures while there is still time and opportunity to recover, and avert national extinction.

Indeed, an EMP attack or demonstration made to "de-escalate" a crisis or conflict is very likely to raise a chorus of voices in the West against nuclear escalation and send Western leaders in a panicked search for the first "off ramp."

Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran in their military doctrines and training regard EMP attack as part of all-out cyber warfare, not necessarily as nuclear warfare.

Our proximity to a nuclear war may be suggested by the simple fact that analysts can now imagine many more possible pathways to a nuclear conflict today than was the case during the Cold War, then dominated by a more or less stable relationship between two nuclear superpowers, the U.S. and USSR.

Today, simply reading the newspapers reveals another possible nuclear confrontation regularly, for those with eyes to see.

For example, it was reported this week that the U.S. will deploy Patriot missiles to the Baltic states for a NATO exercise in July-just before Russia's big annual military exercise ZAPAD-17 (WEST-17) that usually employs 100,000 troops to practice an invasion of NATO. What could possibly go wrong?

My book "The Long Sunday" explores a dozen possible nuclear EMP attack scenarios that could plausibly happen in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and against North America-tomorrow.

Some analysts think the world is on the threshold of a "new nuclear age" where Cold War rules and assumptions about deterrence no longer apply and the likelihood of nuclear use is greatly increasing. The first nation to use nuclear weapons today-even a rogue state like North Korea or Iran-will immediately become the most feared and most credible nuclear power in the world, a formidable force to be reckoned with, and perhaps the dominant actor in a new world order.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission. He served on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee and at the CIA. The views expressed by contributors are their own and are not the views of The Hill.

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Is the US prepared for a nuclear EMP to shut down New York City?

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Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon-and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security's National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.

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A 7 year old boy was accidentally shot in school Monday morning.

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said.

A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said. Another child picked up the gun and it discharged, striking the 7-year-old boy who was standing nearby.

The boy was taken to the hospital and was in surgery as of Monday afternoon.

Officials are conducting an investigation and will decide later if they will press charges against the parents of the student who bought the gun to school.

The children involved in the incident will not be criminally responsible, Mancuso said.

It's unclear why the student brought the gun to school.

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Louisiana boy accidentally shot in school after gun falls from backpack, police say

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A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a Louisiana elementary school Monday morning after a student picked up a gun that fell out of another child's backpack, police said. A student was carrying the gun in his backpack when it fell out in a classroom at Moss Bluff Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said.

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A Brooklyn man who shot a cab driver in 1980 was arrested by a "mob" cop, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He is getting a new trial because the cop who arrested him was a mafia hit man.

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A Brooklyn man doing 25 years to life for the murder of a cabbie says he suffered in silence - and innocence - until he found out the detective who busted him moonlighted as a Mafia hit man.

Paul Clark had no idea who notorious Mob Cop Stephen Caracappa was until his lawyers, James Henning and Craig Phemister, dug into his case and unearthed the rogue detective's name.

The discovery sparked a hope in the 54-year-old Clark that he might finally walk out of prison free, and vindicated.

"I was like, 'Wow!'" Clark told the Daily News in an interview at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, Dutchess County. "This is unbelievable. Here you have a guy who is 10 times worse than me. And I'm stuck in here because of him."

Clark has been behind bars more than three decades, but until late 2015 he had no idea that the cop who helped put him away was so dirty. Caracappa and his partner, Lou Eppolito, were busted in 2005 and later convicted of committing eight murders for the Luchese crime family.

Clark remembers Caracappa as the ruthless detective who arrested him in the April 1980 shooting death of cabbie Oswen Fraser on Jay St. in downtown Brooklyn. The taxi driver, 60, died in what appeared to be a botched robbery.

By the time Clark crossed paths with Caracappa, he was already imprisoned for a murder he admits he did commit in his East Flatbush neighborhood. Clark, 18, shot a 17-year-old, Keith Thomas, at a block party four months after Fraser was killed.

But he did not, he told Caracappa, kill Fraser. Clark told the cop he was with his family in the apartment he shared with his mother and other relatives.

"I was home, asleep," Clark remembered saying. "I don't live around that area, I don't have friends in that area - nothing. He was callous.

"He didn't want to hear what I had to say." Now, Clark hopes to be heard. His lawyers plan to file a motion Monday asking that Clark's conviction be set aside so he can get a new trial.

"All the evidence in this case came from a detective who was a serial killer for the Mafia," Henning said. "That alone is enough to warrant a new trial."

But there is much more, the lawyers said - most notably the troubling inconsistencies provided by witness Veronique Dowie, an NYPD office worker who testified at Clark's 1984 trial.

Curiously, the police file for the Fraser murder is missing, according to the lawyers from the Napoli Shkolnik firm and the Brooklyn district attorney's office. But Henning and Phemister pieced together a chunk of the case based on documents from the district attorney's file.

Dowie, who worked a midnight shift at a warrants office in lower Manhattan, was heading home after 4 a.m. As she pulled up near her building, a yellow cab sped past her in reverse, jumped the sidewalk and crashed into a fence bordering a small cemetery near the Cathedral Basilica of St. James, she told police at the time.

Fraser was dead behind the wheel. But many details of her account, including the number of suspects, what the gunman did after getting out of the cab, what he was wearing and what he looked like, are different from what other witnesses saw - and changed from the time of the shooting to her testimony at trial.

Caracappa got involved in the investigation in September 1980. In a pretrial hearing, he testified that when he met Dowie in 1982 she claimed to have reported to police six months earlier that she'd seen a wanted photo of Clark that was distributed after the block party shooting.

She realized, Caracappa said, that Clark had also killed Fraser.

But Clark's lawyers said there is no record of any such report. They're also suspicious that Caracappa didn't bother with the other witnesses and decided he could lock Dowie into a story that would stand up in court.

"Her insistence on things that didn't happen reeks of coercion," Henning said. "And he closed up shop as soon as he got Veronique Dowie. As soon as she came in with the wanted poster, before she's even viewing photographic arrays, he's calling up the DA's office, saying, 'Let's do a lineup with this guy, Paul Clark.'

"No followup investigation."

The conviction review unit for the Brooklyn DA's office has been reviewing Clark's case.

The NYPD, meanwhile, didn't answer questions about what steps it took to review the cases of Caracappa and Eppolito after they were busted.

Dowie died in June 1991 at age 47. Caracappa died in a federal prison in North Carolina on April 8. He was 75.

Clark, who was sentenced to 331/3 years to life for the block party murder, could conceivably be free on parole now if not for the Fraser conviction.

If he does get out, waiting at home will be the woman he married in prison - they met when she was visiting another inmate - a 36-year-old daughter from an earlier relationship, who was born shortly after he was first convicted, and his mother, whose dream is to live long enough to see him walk through the front door of her Crown Heights apartment.

"I hope and pray," said Clark's mom, Barbara Willis, 80. "I've been praying every day."

For his part, Clark says he's moved past his rage.

"I was angry for a long time," he said. "But I'm a man of faith now. I've got to forgive."

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Brooklyn man busted by mob cop for 1980 murder seeks new trial

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A Brooklyn man doing 25 years to life for the murder of a cabbie says he suffered in silence - and innocence - until he found out the detective who busted him moonlighted as a Mafia hit man.

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally shot days before graduation

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Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

"The entire faculty and staff at McKinley Senior High School wish to express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Bryant Lee," a statement from McKinley High School read, per Marcus Brown of WAFB.

"Bryant was an 18-year-old dedicated scholar who put his academics above his job as the leader of our football team. Bryant transferred to McKinley High School from Scotlandville his sophomore year and joined the Panther football team as quarterback.

"Students and teachers alike will remember Bryant as intelligent, hard-working, focused, fun-loving and as having a great sense of humor. As a student, he was concerned about his grades; as an athlete, he played tough and gave it all he had. One of the characteristics coaches loved about him is that he was coachable. He was respected by his coaches and teammates."

According to a police report the station obtained, Lee was shot in the head by an unknown assailant in Baton Rouge around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries.

McKinley High head football coach Ken Hilton said Lee was planning to attend Southern University and walk on to its football program. He was three days away from his high school graduation.

"I really think something is missing. Something is really missing," Hilton said. "It's a happy time. A day before Mother's Day, three days before he graduates."

Lee was previously shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting in November 2016.

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation

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'Criminal' inaction by Penn State and frat members lead to son's death

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Those charged are accused of putting Timothy Piazza and other pledges through something called "the gauntlet," forcing the pledges to binge drink dangerous amounts of alcohol. Security cameras at the house show Piazza fell down a 15-foot flight of stairs shortly afterward -- and then fell several more times into a railing, on the floor, and down the stairs again, according to the grand jury's presentment, issued after its investigation into Piazza's death.

But even after the falls, instead of calling 911, some of the fraternity members stepped over the frat's newest member, turned to Google to research effects of acute intoxication and what to do for a head injury, and fought over what to do, according to the presentment. One person who wanted to take him to a hospital was criticized by other members of the fraternity as being "over-dramatic," according to the grand jury findings.

"Our hearts go out to the family. This is heart-wrenching for the family, and our entire community," Penn State said in a statement issued Monday.

The university did not respond to CNN's detailed questions related to the allegations, but issued a statement Monday saying that even before Piazza's death, it had taken measures to tackle binge drinking, which it called a national problem.

"Penn State initiated aggressive enforcement, education and monitoring measures to address these issues well before the tragic death of Timothy Piazza, and announced additional measures following, some of which were taken in consultation with the family, which is appropriate. Our actions will continue, and represent our ongoing commitment to drive change in tackling binge drinking at universities. This is a national problem that has been worsening," the statement said.

'This was callous and cold and inhumane'

It was more than 12 hours after Piazza's initial fall down the stairs before help was called, police said, and even then, no one told medical staff that Piazza had a head injury.

"This is torture," Evelyn Piazza told CNN of her son's death. "This was callous and cold and inhumane."

The parents plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Penn State, the fraternity and its members, family attorney Tom Kline told CNN.

"In my mind, he was murdered," Jim Piazza said. "They let him suffer for 12 hours, they let him die a very slow death. It's not any way anyone should ever be treated."

"And when they knew that death was imminent the next morning, they waited 42 minutes to call for help while they told people to clean up, cover up the evidence, get rid of it. This wasn't boys being boys, this was criminal activity," Jim Piazza added.

The criminal presentment against some of the fraternity members shows electronic messages urging the pledges not to talk, and to clean up the alcohol in the basement.

No one went with Tim Piazza to the hospital, his family said, and no one notified them, either.

CNN has reached out to the attorneys for the men charged for comment on the allegations.

One of them told CNN the charges are "improper on many levels."

"The government assumes that these young men, many of whom were intoxicated themselves, should have been able to differentiate symptoms of extreme intoxication from symptoms of a life threatening head injury. That is an impossible burden to place on them," the attorney, Steve Trialonas, said May 8.

Another defense attorney, William J. Brennan, released a statement Monday saying, "While my client is presumed innocent with regards to the criminal charges, I can, as I have done publicly already, extend the deepest sympathy ... to the Piazza family for their tragic and unspeakable loss.

"Legal cases aside, I can assure the Piazza family that my client and his family keeps Tim Piazza and his family in their prayers constantly."

Piazza's girlfriend, Caitlyn Tempalsky, told CNN she simply can't fathom the number of people who chose not to help.

"When I think of not just the 18 people that were charged with things, but all the other people that were there -- girls, too -- I don't understand how any of them could stand there and watch someone clearly injured and unconscious, seizing, and not do anything about it, hunched over in pain," she said. "And to read that people are snapchatting?" referencing a part of the charging papers that says people were sending snapchats of Tim Piazza on the floor.

"Whether you have a legal obligation or not, you have a moral obligation to help another human being," Tempalsky said.

Penn State President Eric Barron stopped all pledging after Piazza's death and put restrictions on alcohol consumption at fraternity social events.

But the Piazzas say those restrictions were actually at their request, not Barron's.

"First of all, the changes that they put through, we told them that they had to," Jim Piazza said, adding that Barron gave no indication that he was planning to implement those changes on his own.

The university told CNN in a statement that the school has been aggressive in tackling fraternity misconduct, with 170 violations in the last two years alone. But Penn State also said it is hamstrung by the fact that fraternities are off-campus.

"I keep hearing from President Barron, 'I can't do anything to these fraternities -- they're on private property,'" Jim Piazza said. "The universities need to take a tougher stand, and don't give me 'it's private property.' You hold the ultimate pen, which is the pen of expulsion."

Beta Theta Pi International Fraternity described the "nature of those charges" announced earlier this month as "incredibly disheartening as the organization and its membership continue to grieve Tim's passing and the pain experienced by his family.

'Governing body' for Penn State fraternities

Aside from the administration -- and like many universities and colleges in the United States -- Penn State has its Interfraternity Council, which describes itself on its website as "the governing body for the 46 fraternity chapters at the Pennsylvania State University," and "entirely student run."

The Piazzas have their own description for the governing body of Penn State fraternities:

"The IFC is a joke," Jim Piazza said.

"They're like a criminal organization, they cover things up," Evelyn Piazza said of the IFC.

CNN's attempts to reach the IFC and one of its attorneys resulted in a statement from the council's vice president for communications, Michael Cavallaro.

"Our thoughts continue to lie with the Piazza family," Cavallaro said. "As students, our primary focus is leading the necessary change Penn State needs to prevent a senseless tragedy like this from happening in the future. We are committed to addressing the critical issues in our fraternity community head on and will be sharing our plans for community-wide changes in the near future."

Penn State, which is facing two other separate lawsuits related to hazing, had a private security firm, St. Moritz Security Systems, which was monitoring all Penn State fraternities during certain social events. A St. Moritz representative told CNN it had been surveilling Penn State fraternities for years and that security officers sent regular reports to the IFC. Those reports are now before a grand jury.

"We were told by the police," Jim Piazza said, "that they hire a security firm to monitor parties but that security firm is not allowed into the parties until the party gets cleaned up."

St. Moritz said it could not comment further due to the ongoing investigation.

A grand jury is now investigating whether the IFC was complicit in allowing hazing and underage drinking at fraternities, and whether Penn State officials were aware, with the grand jury saying in the presentment that "the Penn State Greek community nurtured an environment so permissive of excessive drinking and hazing that it emboldened its members to repeatedly act with reckless disregard to human life."

Jim Piazza said when he met with university president Barron, he asked for the firing of an athletic trainer with the Penn State football team who was also the chapter adviser for Beta Theta Pi.

"This was an alcohol-free, hazing-free fraternity with an adult athletic trainer living in the house, but there were years of parties documented on the tapes (from security cameras in the fraternity house). Nobody paid attention to anything. I blame all of them," Jim Piazza said.

That athletic trainer, Tim Bream, has not been charged. The criminal presentment charging the others says that he was in his room while Piazza struggled but that no one notified him of Piazza's condition.

"He had to know that there were illegal parties going on in that house for years that he lived there," Jim Piazza said.

"He has a responsibility as an adult, as their adviser, as part of the university staff, to speak up when he sees something going wrong -- he didn't."

Bream declined to comment to CNN.

Final words, a final tear

Tim Piazza was an engineering major who wanted to make prosthetic limbs for children and soldiers. He followed his older brother, Mike, to Penn State.

"He was a shy kid but, once he was comfortable with you he had a big personality, he would brighten a room when he walked in, sometimes he was just bigger than life," his father said.

Jim Piazza wasn't thrilled about his son joining a fraternity. He saw it as a party lifestyle that didn't seem to fit his son's personality. Beta Theta Pi looked good on paper, the Piazzas said. It claimed to be alcohol-free, but a grand jury subsequently found that hazing and alcohol abuse had been going on for years at the fraternity.

When his older son, Mike, realized his brother hadn't returned to his apartment the night after his first fraternity pledge event, he called police.

"When I walked into the (hospital) room, it looked like he got hit by a car," his brother, Mike said.

By the time the family arrived at the hospital, doctors already knew they couldn't save Tim.

"I held his hand, telling him we love him," Jim Piazza said. "But he was certainly not visibly with us, but we did see a tear come to his eye and roll down his cheek and I said to the doctor 'Is it possible he heard us?' And the doctor said 'Maybe.' He said, 'We relieved the pressure from his brain, maybe,'

"I'm not sure if I want to know he heard us or not," Jim Piazza continued, "because if he heard us, then he knew he was dying, and I knew he would think that he let us down."

No Penn State officials or members of Beta Theta Pi came to Piazza's funeral. Penn State said "a representative did share in advance with the parents he was unfortunately likely unable to attend the funeral but the university did participate in a vigil held with the Piazza family on campus."

"I expected people to care," Jim Piazza said. "I feel like they're covering their butt."

A preliminary hearing for the 18 charged is expected to take place in June.

Some of the surveillance footage from the fraternity house likely will be played.

"The first thing that we need is to go through the trials and hopefully make a statement to the country that this can't happen," Jim Piazza said.

"Tim Piazza is not just our son, he really represents every son and daughter of every family that is looking to go to college and potentially participate in Greek life in the future. We really need to make these changes for them."

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Parents: 'Criminal' inaction by Penn State and frat members led to son's death

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The parents of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza, who died after participating in a hazing ritual at a Penn State fraternity, say the students who have been charged in the case "murdered" their son, and called the system governing fraternities at the university "criminal."

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The family of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State University fraternity pledge who died after a night of alleged drinking and hazing, plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the university as well as fraternity members and the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi.

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The family of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State University fraternity pledge who died after a night of alleged drinking and hazing, plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the university as well as fraternity members and the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi.

"I think the individuals involved clearly bear the most responsibility," father Jim Piazza said today on " Good Morning America." "If you read the timeline of what happened, they set out to feed these guys lethal amounts of alcohol from the outset. There was intent there right from the beginning.

"They intended to bring these gentlemen to alcohol-poisoning levels right from the outset," he said. "At the end of the day, this was planned and orchestrated and I think they all need to be held accountable."

Piazza, a sophomore and pledge at Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity, died on Feb. 4 following a fall on the night of Feb. 2. Fraternity members did not call 911 until the morning of Feb. 3, about 12 hours after Piazza's fall, according to a report on the grand jury's investigation.

Piazza's death "was the direct result of traumatic brain injuries," according to the forensic pathologist, and 18 Penn State students are facing charges: eight for involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and hazing, among other charges; four for reckless endangerment and hazing, among other charges; and six for evidence tampering.

"I don't know where their conscience was, where the voice in the back of their head was saying, 'He's hurt. I gotta do the right thing,'" said Piazza's mother, Evelyn Piazza. "I don't understand how they could be so heartless and inhumane."

The Piazzas plan to sue "all of those responsible for the death of Tim, including the fraternity members, the fraternity, as well as Penn State," the family's attorney, Tom Kline, told ABC News.

"This was occurring right underneath the noses of Penn State officials," Kline told ABC News. "There was a task force that was empaneled a few years earlier that did nothing to stop this. The problem was widespread. The problem was endemic at Penn State. They looked away."

Penn State officials have acknowledged that alcohol on campus is a "serious challenge" and that fraternity houses are especially hard to control because they are privately owned.

After Piazza's death, the university added new restrictions for all Greek organizations and put a graduation hold on the students charged in Piazza's death. It also published a new "Frequently Asked Questions" web page last week, launched new alcohol-education programs and promised that "we will not rest until we solve this problem."

Penn State President Eric Barron in a statement earlier this month said, "The alleged details in the grand jury presentment, which suggest the inhumane treatment of a student forced through hazing to consume dangerous amounts of alcohol and endure hours of suffering, are sickening and difficult to understand."

The Beta Theta Pi fraternity -- which has since been barred from Penn State -- is facing charges including involuntary manslaughter and hazing.

Piazza's brother, Mike Piazza, said he warned his younger brother to "keep his wits about him" if he decided to pledge with a fraternity.

"I had advised him to just be cautious," Mike Piazza said on "GMA." "I knew that it was something that I necessarily didn't feel that I fit in with so I was concerned that maybe he wouldn't really find his place there, so I just advised him to keep his wits about him, but ultimately do whatever he felt comfortable with."

The Piazza family has also started a foundation, The Timothy J. Piazza Memorial Foundation, Inc., in their son's memory. Money raised by the foundation will provide scholarships to Piazza's high school alma mater and also "help those who are in need of prosthetic devices," a reflection of Piazza's career ambition, according to the foundation's website.

ABC News' Gio Benitez and Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.

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North Korea said on Monday it had successfully launched a new type of ballistic missile in its latest test which it said was aimed at building capacity to launch nuclear missiles.

The North fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia on Sunday in a launch that came just days after South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in, who has called for closer engagement with Pyongyang, was inaugurated in Seoul.

Sunday's launch was of a "new ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket" named the Hwasong-12, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the test, it said, and "hugged officials in the field of rocket research, saying that they worked hard to achieve a great thing".

Kim accused the United States of "browbeating" countries that "have no nukes" and warned Washington not to misjudge the reality that its mainland is in the North's "sighting range for strike", KCNA reported.
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The missile was launched at the highest angle so as not to affect the security of neighbouring countries and flew 787km reaching an altitude of 2,111.5km, KCNA said.

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The North says it needs atomic weapons to defend itself against the threat of invasion and has carried out two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year.

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